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Mopath procedure level 5 at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$2,734.80
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$4,558.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$175.65 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,514.67 with Highmark BCBS of PA — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $175.65 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $229.10 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $267.56 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $271.62 | ↓ -90% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $274.83 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $282.03 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $288.57 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $292.02 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $296.82 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $296.82 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $296.82 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $297.29 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $302.31 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $326.06 | ↓ -88% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $335.65 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $364.42 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $383.60 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $383.60 | ↓ -86% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $421.96 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $473.81 | ↓ -83% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $479.50 | ↓ -82% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $527.45 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $575.40 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $636.66 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $715.56 | ↓ -74% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $719.25 | ↓ -74% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $767.20 | ↓ -72% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $767.20 | ↓ -72% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $786.38 | ↓ -71% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $863.10 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $863.10 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $958.22 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,130.99 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,514.67 | ↓ -45% |
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Mopath procedure level 5 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $9,075.60 | $176.69 – $511.70 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,296.20 | $40.32 – $478.32 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,734.80 | $177.12 – $897.60 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $5,040.00 | $214.59 – $2,059.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,109.80 | $176.77 – $2,105.45 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $6,400.00 | $214.59 – $2,103.30 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,033.60 | $214.59 – $633.60 |